The lucky nominees have been invited to a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday, November 22, at the County Thistle Hotel in Newcastle.

In our Champion Child of Courage category, sponsored by Northumbrian Water, brave Ashington six-year-old Archie Anderson is in the running.

The schoolboy, who suffers from cerebral palsy, flew to America for a major operation called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) to correct his legs so he can play out with his friends.

Little Chloe Metcalfe’s story also touched our judges hearts. Chloe, seven, from Consett, County Durham, suffers from an extremely rare genetic condition which has left her partially sighted and unable to walk.

Professor Josef Vormoor has been shortlisted in the Champion Health Worker category.

The Chairman of Child Health at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary is involved with the Sir James Spence Institute and has seen the unit become one of Europe’s leading centres into research into the treatment of childhood cancers.

In the Armed Forces Champion category, sponsored by G4S, Sergeant Dan Henderson, of Gateshead’s Ryton, has made the cut.

He saved his colleagues from almost certain death when he spotted a Taliban roadside bomb while serving out in Afghanistan.

In the Community Champion Award, sponsored by Newcastle Institute for Renewal, cancer survivor Joanne Smith is in the running. The mum-of-three set up the Gateshead-based charity FACT (Fighting All Cancers Together).

Ashleigh Smithson, regional events manager with the Evening Chronicle Events Team, said: “Congratulations to all of the finalists of the Community Champion Awards 2012, I know that it was extremely difficult to select a shortlist.

“But after a lot of deliberation I am sure that the awards really will reflect the North East’s Community Champions.”

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